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Let Receptly book jobs into your Google Calendar

About a minute on your phone. You share your calendar with us the same way you’d share it with an office manager. We do the rest.

1 minOn your phone or a computer. Nothing to install.
YouWhoever owns the Google account your jobs go into.
FreeSharing a calendar costs nothing.

Before you start

What you need

  • The Google Calendar app on your phone, or a computer with calendar.google.com open.
  • Signed in to the Google account that holds your work calendar.
  • The Receptly address we give you on the setup call. It doesn’t need to be in your contacts. Type it in and it works.
  • If your email ends in your business name and someone else runs it, they may have blocked sharing outside the business. If a step below won’t let you add us, that’s why. Tell us and we’ll sort it with them.

On your phone

Share it from the Google Calendar app

  1. Open the menuOpen Google Calendar and tap the three lines, top left.
    OctoberMTWTFSS12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728Blocked drain, PenrithQuote, BlacktownTap the three lines1Open the menu
  2. Go to SettingsScroll to the bottom of the menu and tap Settings.
    ScheduleDay3 daysWeekMonthYour work calendarSettings2Scroll down, tap Settings
  3. Pick the calendarUnder your email address, tap the calendar your jobs should land in. For most people that’s the one with your own name on it.
    ←SettingsGeneralyou@yourbusiness.com.auYour nameYour work calendarBirthdaysHolidays in Australia3Tap your work calendar
  4. Add usTap Shared with, then Add people or groups. Type the Receptly address.
    ←Your nameNotificationsColourSHARED WITH+ Add people or groupsType the Receptly address4Add the Receptly address
  5. Set the permissionChoose Make changes and see all event details. The default is view only, and we can’t book a job into a calendar we can only look at.
    ←PermissionSee only free/busySee all event detailsMake changes and see allevent detailsMake changes and managesharing5Pick “Make changes…”
  6. SaveTap Save. That’s it.
    ←Share withSaveReceptly addressMake changes and seeall event details6Tap Save. Done.

Pictures are simplified. Your screen may look a little different.

On a computer

Or share it from calendar.google.com

  1. Find the calendarOn the left, under My calendars, hover over your calendar and click the three dots, then Settings and sharing.
    calendar.google.comMy calendarsYour nameBirthdaysHolidaysDisplay this onlyHide from listSettings and sharingHover, click the three dots1Settings and sharing
  2. Add usUnder Share with specific people or groups, click Add people and groups and type the Receptly address.
    calendar.google.comShare with specific people or groups+ Add people and groupsEmailReceptly address2Add people and groups
  3. Set the permissionChoose Make changes and see all event details, then Send.
    calendar.google.comShare with specific peopleEmailReceptly addressSee only free/busySee all event detailsMake changes and see all event detailsMake changes and manage sharingSend3Make changes, then Send

Pictures are simplified. Your screen may look a little different.

What it costs you

Nothing

Sharing a Google Calendar is free. There’s no extra account for you to pay for.

Why we do it this way

What we won’t ask you for

  • Your password. Not for any of your accounts, not ever. If someone says they’re from Receptly and asks for one, it isn’t us.
  • A login of our own inside your software. Most job software charges per user, so that would put your bill up, and some of them ban shared logins outright.

Switching it off

You can cut us off yourself, any time

Go back to the same screen: Settings, your calendar, Shared with. Tap the cross next to our address and save. Bookings stop that moment.

Jobs already in your calendar stay where they are. They’re yours.

Questions

Straight answers

Why does it need to see event details?

So it doesn’t book a job on top of something you’ve already got on. It checks when you’re busy before it offers a time.

Can it see my personal stuff?

It sees the calendar you share and nothing else. Keep a separate calendar for family things and don’t share that one.

I use Outlook, not Google.

Different steps. See connecting Outlook.

Stuck on a step?

Stop where you are and tell us on the setup call. We’ll walk you through it on the phone while you tap. Or email contact@receptlyai.com.au with the step number you’re on.

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